David Jaffe (The Always angry ex God of War creator) says Herman Hulst pushed for Japan Studio closure (rip Bloodborne)
David Jaffe: Herman Hulst pushed for playstation's Japan Studios closure.
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Will listen. But sometimes I don’t know what Jaffe knows and what he doesn’t, it seems he himself has been frozen out completely.
Japan studio was a liability that couldn’t get its sht together. They had 40+ projects in various stages of development at one time in 2013 they couldn’t focus. Sony made the right decision. Jaffe just comes off as butter and still trying to stick in to Sony because gow is better than ever without him, twice dyed metal will be better without him. Instead of trying to constantly undermine Sony, attacking ps, capping for garbage games and pushing gamepass he needs to do something useful.
Jaffe is a pariah. How would he get inside info?
He can have some bad takes but he's not a liar.
I trust him on things like this. It's too serious to make things up IMO.
One of those individuals that never give the right aura out the bat. When a studio head from a Sony mid studio whose mastery was mid shooters that didn't stack with the competition despite continuous efforts...... when that dude of all dudes rose to the top of the ladder in the UK coup, as opposed to others at the top of more successful Sony studios, say Naughty Dog heads or SSM heads that specialize in what became Sony's forte and renaissance that was an alarm bell for things to come. I wasn't in the least surprised that Bungie was acquired by Sony with Herman as head of worldwide studios... being always in Bungie's rear view mirror during the PS3 era, and seeing it happen again with Destiny was like the "tap out" moment. But even Bungie, as big as they're due to the genre they part take in, they've never been regarded as good as Naughty Dog or SSM by relative comparison, only Rockstar is there. The power shift and struggle will be a thing the more Microsoft puts the squeeze for consolidation, and thus the greater the impetus for clear winners and a constant source of revenue to give breathing room for every one studio under Sony's ownership.
Sure Microsoft will be chaos, but so will Sony if they "fast follow", which seems be sort of one of the many points.
The Jim/Hermen era can't die any sooner.
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You always get right to the heart of the issue.
I posted in another thread that all his moves seem to be to push Guerrilla and his clique into the premier / power positions at PlayStation.
How hard is Horizon being pushed? Sequel, PC releases, VR, GAAS, DLC etc
Nixxes.... his friends!
Firesprite to make Horizon Call of the Mountain.
Against Japanese studios, why? Cause he doesn't want his studios competing with studios from Japan or them communicating back to HQ that he is fucking up or playing favorites.
Everyone that was part of the GAAS push should be gone.... That was a terrible, shortsighted idea. It was against everything that PlayStation is about.
Anyway, at this stage, I'm venting. I was never a Hermen fan and didn't understand why people were fanboying about him...
yep, for people to believe this they’d have to actually think that Hulst would want to get rid of Polyphony Digital and Team Asobi
I don't, personally. The dude is bitter and stretches the truth to shit on them all the time.
Yall being gaslit and im here to watch yall burn over some has been that aint worth a damn.
Blame Yoshida and Layden for mismanaging the studio, just like how they mismanaged Media Molecule.
Eh, we will see.
Mostly, I'm just loving Spider-man 2... these things are so removed from us, as gamers.
Disagree. He was willing to burn his relationship with his supposed mentor in order to clout chase on twitter and push his patreon.
Imagine you're connie booth and you and your team have just been let go (or if she voluntarily retired) and some jackass that looks like a hobo is out there screaming about you losing your job for clickbait and spreading it to the world, I would feel disrespected as fuck.
Jaffe sold whatever ethics he had left down the river.
Yeah, on that side of things it's really not good.
It's a different aspect of it... and I am on the same page as you.
It's a noticeable list, and those inside Sony are not blind.
Biggest consequential move imo still is Evan Wells choosing to retire. That's the MVP of all Sony studio heads right there.
